Sick Souls, Healthy Minds (eBook)

How William James Can Save Your Life

John Kaag (Autor)

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2020
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20093-4 (ISBN)

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From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "e;Is Life Worth Living?"e; It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, "e;James's entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life"e;-and that's why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to James's life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology-and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous-can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.Kaag tells how James's experiences as one of what he called the "e;sick-souled,"e; those who think that life might be meaningless, drove him to articulate an ideal of "e;healthy-mindedness"e;-an attitude toward life that is open, active, and hopeful, but also realistic about its risks. In fact, all of James's pragmatism, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives, is a response to, and possible antidote for, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James.Eloquent, inspiring, and filled with insight, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds may be the smartest and most important self-help book you'll ever read.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.3.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: adolescence • ALL THINGS • American Philosophy • Anhedonia • antipathy • Anxiety • Arthur Schopenhauer • Biology • Calvinism • Certainty • Charles Sanders Peirce • chauvinism • Consciousness • Consummation • cowardice • critique • crossing brooklyn ferry • Depression (mood) • Determinism • Disgust • Empirical Evidence • empirical psychology • Everyday life • Existentialism • exploration • Fatalism • freedom • Free Will • Friedrich Nietzsche • God • Good and evil • Gratitude • G. Stanley Hall • Harper's Magazine • Harvard • Harvard University • Henry Bugbee • Henry James • Henry James, Sr. • Hope • how to live • humility • hypothesis • Individualism • inference • inspirational book • inspirational books • In the Maelstrom of Modernism • James Russell Lowell • Lecture • Leonora Piper • loneliness • Louis Menand • Loyalty • meaninglessness • meaning of pragmatism • Memoir • metaphysical club • Modernity • Morality • Narcissism • Natural Theology • Nihilism • nonbeliever • obstacle • On the Freedom of the Will • optimism • overcoming despair • overcoming determinism • Ownership (psychology) • Parapsychology • pessimism • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • Physiology • Positivism • Potentiality and actuality • Practical effect • practical philosophy • Pragmatic theory of truth • Pragmatism • Principle • Protagoras • Pseudoscience • psychic • Psychology • quackery • Ralph Barton Perry • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Rationalism • Rationality • Reality • reason • reductionism • Reinforcement • Relativism • Religion • religious experience • Remorse • Robert Richardson • sanity • Scientist • Slough of Despond • Steven Rose • Stoicism • Suffering • Suicidal ideation • Symptom • The Nature of Truth • The New York Times • theory • The Principles of Psychology • The Varieties of Religious Experience • Thought • transcendence • truth claim • Uncertainty • uses of pragmatism • Validity • varieties of religious experience • what does pragmatism mean • William James books • William James quotes • wishful thinking • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20093-9 / 0691200939
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20093-4 / 9780691200934